The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-05-20
WASHINGTON.


4 The statute of Garfield was unveiled Thurs.
day.
James w. Hyatt, Of Connecticut has been
appointed treasurer Of the United States,
vice Jordan resigned.
The members of the Hotel Mems Mutual
Benefit association elected Jewett Wilcox, Of
Chicago, president for the ensuing year.
The residents of Folsom station, in the
southern part Of the state, are jubilant over
the discovery Of iron ore there.
1t is rumorcd that the big cotton mills
which we're intended to be located at Bcntons-
port will be placed at Fl. Madison.
Rev. DR.. Strickland has resigned the pas
toral charge Of the High Street Baptist church
Of Des Moines, to take effect June 19.
The Society of the Army of the Cumberland
met at Washington on Wednesday. General
Sheridan presided. Col. Dufield, of Detroit,
delivered the address.
Ashton is shaken from center to circum-
ference on the question Of allowing base ball
playing on Sunday, the town council having
recently refused to prohibit the sport.
The Latter Day Saints arc trying to reform
Council Bluffs. Elder WIN. NJ. Palmer on
Sunday expatiatcd upon tire topic, "The
Divine Mission of Joseph Smith, the propet."
Mrs. Margaret Black, Of Boone, last week
received arrears OF pension to the amount of
IL, 800 becauseo of the death of her son from
causes arising from his services in the late
war.
The McAllister block in Spencer, the foun-
dations for which were laid several years ago,
is to be completed this summer. It will be of
brick, IS feet front, SIS feet deep and two
stories high.
The comptroller Of currency has authoriz
cd the Western National bank of New York
to begin business, with a capital of s., SOC, 600.
The officers of the bank ore Daniel Manning,
president, and Blankinhorn, cashier.
Up to May II, the department of state re-
ceived no Information of the execution by the
Mexican government of four Mexican officers
for trcsspassing ON American soil. Secretary
Bayard appealed for clcmency for the con.
demned men.
The miners Of Des Moines quit work on the
Sd inst, not only on account Of a reduction,
bnt because they were required to sign a con.
tract agreeing to work at the reduced rate for
the period Of one year. A 70 per cent reduc-
ton was asked.
The railroads all seem to be seriously
troubled with tramps just now. They steal
rides, destroy property, fool with the trains
and train men, and at small stations and
other unprotected points they make them.
). ses generally disliScd.
A i" Imam of the town died very suddenly
at Burlington Thursday afternoon, and 1t
was generally considered a case of suicide uu.
til a post mortem examination established
the fact that the bursting OF a blood vee-
sci, at the base of the brain, caused death.
While bathing in a creek near Persia a boy
named Arthur Snyder died very suddenly,
and his companions supposed that he had
drowned, but the physic.ai.s give 1t as their
opinion that heart disease, which is heredi-
tary in the boys family, was the cause of his
death.
v. W. Bullock, for twelve years a promi.
uSAs ksuiu oedAcI VI DuTllDSCOus nus 6Oa0s
doned the business and removed to Denver.
Col, claiming that the interstate commerce
law placed such restrictions upon the grain
business at Burlington as to make 1t unprof.
liable.
Thursday was the second day of the re.
union of the Army of the Cumberland, and
the ceremonies of the unveiiing of the Gar
field statue. A great concoursc attended the
exercises, the weather being all that could be
desired. Gen. Sheridan introduced the orator
OF the day, Gen. ]. Warren Keller. who de.
livered an address, transferring to Gen. sheri.
dan the statue, who, On behalf of the society
presented 1t to the president. President
Cleveland in acceptance addressed the people,
being repeatedly interrupted oy applause.
FOREIGN.
Samuel Cousins, the engraver. is dead. He
eighty. six years old.